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	'<{title}>' => 'Choices that aren&apos;t choices',
	'takedown' => '2017-11-01',
	'<{body}>' => <<<END
<section id="general">
	<h2>General news</h2>
	<p>
		I was wrong about how well my gums were doing on the site of my more-recent extraction.
		The holes feel pretty much sealed when felt with my tongue, but I guess I hadn&apos;t actually looked.
		The holes are very much visible.
	</p>
	<p>
		I learned more about Vanessa&apos;s particular brand of queerness today.
		She&apos;s not actually bisexual at all.
		She&apos;s biromantic, but heterosexual.
		Interesting.
		She calls herself bisexual because it&apos;s easier to explain; just like I call myself gay, but that&apos;s not quite a fitting label.
	</p>
	<p>
		Also though, our mother was talking with Vanessa a while ago, and I guess the topic of bisexuality came up.
		Our mother said she didn&apos;t understand why people would choose to be bi.
		Um.
		What?
		That makes our mother&apos;s view of sexuality inconsistent with itself.
		She believes that she herself is heterosexual, and she believes she has no other choice; it&apos;s just who she is.
		She also says gays have no choice.
		Her reasoning is that the lesbians she&apos;s met, or at least some of them, based on their body build, &quot;aren&apos;t women, but men&quot;.
		So ... if heteros have no choice, and homos have no choice, who&apos;s left that could &quot;choose&quot; to be bi?
		It makes no sense.
		Anyway, our mother told Vanessa if she ever chose to be bi, not to come out to her.
		Ouch.
		That had to hurt, seeing as that&apos;s a label she uses, even if it doesn&apos;t quite fit.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="university">
	<h2>University life</h2>
	<p>
		It turns out I pretty much finished my discussion post yesterday, but I thought the reading material contained more information on the topic than it did.
		It was all pretty close to the beginning though, so as I was writing it as I read, I had the bulk done.
		That made today simpler, though I still needed to finish the reading material to know that.
	</p>
	<p>
		Sometimes a little desperation can be a good thing.
		My neighbour&apos;s Wi-Fi was out last night.
		I tried to use <code>adb</code> to route my connection through my mobile, only to find that <a href="/en/domains/bailey.local.xhtml"><code>bailey</code></a> didn&apos;t have $a[ADB] installed.
		I haven&apos;t needed to use $a[ADB] since switching laptops!
		I was glad to know this before leaving town, as I would be relying on $a[ADB] to check on the discussion forum at school.
		I hoped the Wi-Fi would be back up in the morning so I could install $a[ADB], but it wasn&apos;t.
		I couldn&apos;t go to the library to use their network connection to install $a[ADB] either, as it&apos;s Saturday and they&apos;re closed.
		So now, to make sure I could get my coursework done, I tried some new search terms (on my mobile) to figure out how to get tethering working.
		It turns out it&apos;s no straightforward thing to do when using Wicd, but it&apos;s very much possible.
		I now have tethering working!
		You&apos;ve got to manually enter the interface name into $a[Wicd], and $a[Wicd] can only remember one wired interface at a time.
		That means you&apos;ve got to record the name of your Ethernet interface somewhere or you&apos;ll need to find it again later.
		Also, it seems my mobile&apos;s interface name changes every time I tether.
		Joy.
		There&apos;s no keeping track of that, I&apos;ve got to ask the computer what interfaces are available every time I go to tether.
		Still, it works.
	</p>
	<p>
		My discussion post for the day:
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			I had no idea that input devices caused interrupts.
			That&apos;s very interesting to know.
			At first, I thought maybe we were discussion different types of interrupts than each other, as they don&apos;t seem to fit together on the surface, but I think my initial assessment was wrong.
			It actually makes sense that input devices would cause an interrupt.
			It&apos;s not the currently-running software that needs to process input from hardware devices, but the operating system.
			Once the operating system processes the input, it can send any relevant input to the running software.
			I guess if you&apos;re continually supplying input, the computer needs to continually flip back and forth between the operating system and the application.
			The machine&apos;s already rapidly switching between the operating system and the various applications you have running though, so it&apos;s not like you&apos;d even notice the extra flipping when typing or moving a mouse.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<p>
		Due to my mother&apos;s faulty communication lines, I wasn&apos;t able to get my messages through to her asking her plans.
		She&apos;d implied yesterday she&apos;d want us to skip town today, but I was too caught by surprise at the time to ask right away.
		I ended up dragging all my stuff to her place, then we didn&apos;t even leave tonight.
		We&apos;ll leave in the morning.
		It still cost me as much time as if we had left though, as we ended up socialising.
		Holidays suck.
		I should still be on track with my coursework though.
	</p>
</section>
END
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